I found what looked like a piece of a potato on my lawn before it snowed last week - I thought some little rascal rodent had dragged it from my compost pile, but when I lifted it, it was light as a feather, weightless. It was more like a leaf, but shaped into a wedge.
I then started to think of a cocoon ... a search with Google Lens suggested this might be the overwintering phase of a Polyphemous moth, widely distributed across the U.S. From what I can tell, this seems to be the most likely identification. I put it back outside amongst the leaf litter - maybe I'll spot one of the silk moths next season ...
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